Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the session organisers, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts for oral talks and posters to the Session “T2.18. Mixed Forest plantations as resilient natured-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation” of the IUFRO 2024 Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, 23 – 29 June 2024.
This session will focus on findings from tree diversity experiments and silvicultural trials comparing mixtures with monocultures in forest plantations. Abstracts can be submitted until 2 June 2023 at https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstracts/
Best regards,
Hernán Serrano-León
T2.18. Mixed forest plantations as natured-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Session organizers: Hernán Serrano-León, Ramona Werner, Joel Jensen, Hervé Jactel, Carolyn Glynn
Forest plantations globally provide an increasingly large share of the wood products that contribute to a carbon-neutral bioeconomy, while reducing the harvest pressure on native and natural forests. Their importance is likely to increase with the projected rise in the global demand for the provision of multiple forest goods, and the increasing threat to natural forests posed by climate change. Yet, plantations are faced with controversies related to the potential negative impacts of dominating monospecific plantations for the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem functions and to the increasing vulnerability of monocultures to biotic and abiotic risks intensified by climate change (CC).
A growing body of evidence suggests that multi-specific mixed forest plantations provide a wider array of ecosystem services and can be more efficient in sequestrating carbon, while better coping with CC-related stress and biotic disturbances. These results can be traced to mechanisms of complementary or facilitated resource use and alleviated competition in mixed plantations, and can result from a “portfolio effect” of diversification that minimizes the risk of a given species or forest function to be drastically affected. Nevertheless, there is an apparent reluctance among landowners and stakeholders to adopt mixed plantations as a nature-based solution for CC mitigation and adaptation. Among the possible factors preventing the expansion of mixed plantations is an insufficient scientific base for management practices regarding the type of species mixtures that optimize CC mitigation, adaptation and ecosystem functioning across contrasting site conditions.
This session focuses on findings from tree diversity experiments, silvicultural trials comparing mixtures with monocultures, and analyses of the socio-economic contexts of tree-species diverse plantations. This session presents recent research that 1) improves the mechanistic understanding behind the potential of mixed- forest plantations to mitigate and adapt to climate change, or 2) identifies trade-offs and synergies among adaptation, mitigation and other objectives in the management of mixed-forest plantations. The final aim of this session is to identify the knowledge gaps that prevent progress towards a wider implementation of mixed plantations in adaptive forest management strategies and restoration measures, and to discuss research approaches to fill these gaps.
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Hernán Serrano-León
Research Associate
Freiburg University, Chair of Silviculture and Chair of Geobotanics
@TreeDivNet MixForChange <https://mixforchange.cirad.fr/> project
www.linkedin.com/in/hernanserranoleon/<http://www.linkedin.com/in/hernanserranoleon/>
www.researchgate.net/profile/Hernan_Serrano_Leon<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hernan_Serrano_Leon>
Tel.: +49 (0)1520 622 6221
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the session organisers, I would like to invite you to submit abstracts for oral talks and posters as part of T1.34 entitled "Transitioning to Continuous Cover Forestry in Times of Climate Change and Energy Crisis" of the IUFRO World Congress held at Stockholm on 23-39 June 2024. Please submit your abstracts by June 2nd 2023 at https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectName=iufro2024abstracts.
Best wishes,
Arne Pommerening
Session organisers: Arne Pommerening, Aine Ni Dhubhain, Jørgen Bo Larsen, Per Angelstam, Hubert Hasenauer
T1.34 Transitioning to Continuous Cover Forestry in Times of Climate Change and Energy Crisis
Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) is forest management based on ecological principles with a view to avoid degradation effects. Throughout the world and in the literature the concept goes by many semi-synonyms which do not exactly mean the same but are headed approximately into the same direction. For example, one of these semi-synonyms is nature-based forest management. CCF has a long history in Central Europe but is comparatively new to other parts of the world. Currently the popularity of CCF is on the increase again for its potential to mitigate climate change, to increase or at least maintain biodiversity in forest ecosystems, to provide valuable tools for forest conservation and to enhance the appeal of woodlands used for recreation. Recently the EU forest strategy for 2030 stated clearcutting should be “used only in duly justified cases, for example, when proven necessary for environmental or ecosystem health reasons” and the strategy promotes “the creation or maintenance at stand and landscape level of genetically and functionally diverse, mixed‐species forests.” Early in 2022, the European Forest Institute (EFI) has launched a new strategy underpinning CCF principles with scientific evidence. It is particularly the early phase of transitioning towards CCF, i.e. the introduction of CCF to a country or region where this management type has not been commonly used before, which usually constitutes a major challenge for forest practice and stakeholders. For example, this was the situation 20 years ago in Ireland and in the UK and CCF is now being considered for introduction in the congress host country Sweden. A long-standing and crucial question is how natural disturbances can be more directly included in the design of CCF methods. The recent global energy crisis has added another challenging facet to implementing CCF and methods like the coppice selection system and coppice with
standards may now assume greater importance than they did in the past. A topic close to the heart of forest practice is the important question how, in the context of these current challenges, the sustainability of ecosystem goods and services can be ensured in CCF and its variants. Effective methods of safeguarding ecosystem goods and services may, for example, require forest inventory designs to be adopted.
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Arne Pommerening, PhD (Göttingen), Habilitation (Vienna)
Professor in Mathematical Statistics Applied to Forest Sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU
Faculty of Forest Sciences
Department of Forest Ecology and Management
Skogsmarksgränd 17
SE-901 83
Umeå
Sweden
http://www.pommerening.org<http://www.pommerening.org/>
http://blogg.slu.se/forest-biometrics
Twitter: @ArneTanYrOnnen
New textbook: Individual-based methods in forest ecology and management<https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030245276>
New book on academic mentoring: Staying on top in academia<https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030654665>
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the sessions organizers, I would like to draw your attention
to the Technical Session 1.8 (see below description) at IUFRO World Congress
(Stockholm 23-29 June, 2024) . If you work with complex forests structures
feel free to submit your abstract until June 2nd at
https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectName=iufro2024abstracts
All the best,
Andrés
Sessions organizers: Andrés Bravo-Oviedo, Linda Nagel, Gary Kerr, Magnus
Löf, William Keeton, Miren del Rio, Andrej Boncina, Felipe Bravo, Alfredo di
Filippo, Mark J. Ducey, Hans Pretzsch
T1.8 Complex forests: Understanding and management of multiple species,
structures and ecosystem services.
Forestry faces important challenges in the decades ahead. The quick global
change affecting the climate system, economy and biodiversity has put
forests in the front line of mitigation and adaptation policies across the
world with different approaches. In temperate regions forest researchers and
practitioners have already understood that more structurally and
compositional diverse forest stands are essential to meet climate and
bioeconomy targets.
This session will present current knowledge on complex forest structures
research and practice. It will cover silvicultural and ecological aspects of
multiple species and multi-aged stands dynamics as well as the consequences
of increasing complexity for forest functioning, ecosystem services
provision and biodiversity conservation. The session will also deal with
measuring and modelling challenges that foresters and researchers are
currently confronting. A final discussion among moderators, presenters and
public will summarize the future of complex forest structures within the
forestry discipline and their benefits for the bioeconomy.
Presentations for oral contributions and posters are welcome on the
following topics:
(i) Multiple species silviculture; (ii) Multi-aged structure silviculture;
(iii) Functions, services and biodiversity and (iv) Measuring and Modelling
the forest complexity.
The session is organized by the following IUFRO research groups RG1.09
Ecology and silviculture of mixed forests, RG1.05.00 - Uneven-aged
silviculture; and units 1.01.06 - Ecology and silviculture of oak; 1.01.07 -
Ecology and silviculture of beech; 1.01.09 - Ecology and silviculture of
fir; 4.01.02 Growth models for tree and stand simulation; 8.01.01 Old
growth forests and forest reserves.
Dr. Andrés Bravo-Oviedo
Senior Research Scientist (Científico Titular)
Coordinator of IUFRO RG 1.09.00 Ecology and Silviculture of Mixed Forests (
<http://www.iufro.org/> www.iufro.org)
Reviews Editor European Journal of Forest Research
<https://www.springer.com/journal/10342>
Adaptive Silviculture
<https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Adaptive-Silviculture-and-Applied-Forest-E
cology-ASAFE-Lab-Andres-Bravo-Oviedo> & Applied Forest Ecology Lab
(ASAFE-Lab)
Dpt. Biogeography and Global Change
National Museum of Natural Sciences CSIC
Serrano 115 bis
28006 Madrid (ES)
Phone: +34 91 333 30 82 ext. 443 440 New number!
<https://www.mncn.csic.es/es/quienes_somos/andres-bravo-oviedo>
www.mncn.csic.es
Professional profile visit:
https://www.mncn.csic.es/es/quienes_somos/bravo-oviedo-andres
Dear Division 8 and Division 4 researchers,
We have an exciting new vacancy (permanent position) to fill in Teagasc and if you (or someone you know) are interested please see details below:
Forest Carbon Researcher (Permanent) Ref 814
Basic Function
Teagasc seeks to appoint a forestry researcher to measure and model the impact on carbon of afforestation and forest management.
The successful candidate will be part of the Forestry Development Department based in Johnstown Castle (or other Teagasc centre by agreement). They will work in an interdisciplinary and collaborative manner with other forestry, soils and carbon researchers both in Teagasc and externally.
Location: Forestry Development Department, Johnstown Castle Research Centre, Wexford or other major Teagasc Research Centre, subject to agreement with the Head of Department.
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 6th of June 2023 @12pm
Salary: Research Officer with a Salary Scale of €37,808 to €72,999
Government policy continues to be that starting pay on recruitment from open competition for all posts within the public service should be at the minimum of the relevant salary scale and are not subject to negotiation.
Contract duration: Permanent
How to apply & more detailed job description:
https://topjobs-teagasc.thehirelab.com/LiveJobs/JobApply/82705?source=1&ext…
yours sincerely,
Nuala Ní Fhlatharta
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Dr. Nuala Ní Fhlatharta
Head of Forestry Development Department
Teagasc
Mellows Development Centre
Athenry
Co. Galway
Ph: 091 845200
Mob: 087 2242282
email: nuala.nifhlatharta(a)teagasc.ie<mailto:nuala.nifhlatharta@teagasc.ie>
www.teagasc.ie/forestry<http://www.teagasc.ie/forestry>
Subscribe here to the Teagasc Forestry e-Newsletter<https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/forestry/forestry-e-news/> keeping you informed about our upcoming events and the latest Irish forestry news.
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to session T3.11 "Forest resilience: the vision from belowground“ at the XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024 to be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 23-29 June 2024.
Please consider presenting your research in our session, or spread it to potential scientists, to contribute to our understanding of how belowground ecological processes and related biotics enhance forest resilience to a variety of stresses.
You can submit your abstract at https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstracts/ until 2 June 2023.
Thank you very much and we are look forward to seeing you in Stockholm!
Best wishes,
Junwei Luan, Frank Berninger, Scott X. Chang, Ho Sang Kang, Alexia Stokes, Shirong Liu
Luan, Junwei（栾军伟）
Ph.D./Professor
Institute of Resources and Environment,
International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (ICBR),
State Forestry and Grassland Administration
#8 Futong East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100102
Tel:+86 10 84789785
Email: junweiluan(a)icbr.ac.cn
junweiluan(a)gmail.com
junweiluan(a)126.com
https://sites.google.com/site/junweiluan/
Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to our session T1.15 „Impacts of Global Change on Protective Forests in Mountain Areas“ at the XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024 to be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 23-29 June 2024.
We would be happy, if you would consider presenting and discussing your research in our session, to contribute to our understanding of how rising temperatures, increasing forest disturbance frequencies and intensities, and socio-economic changes affect the ecosystem service “protection against alpine natural hazards” provided by mountain forests.
You can submit your abstract here https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstracts/ until 2 June 2023, which is approaching fast!
Thank you very much in advance and we hope to see many of you in Stockholm!
Best,
Christine Moos, Ana Stritih, Alessandra Bottero and Michaela Teich
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Dr. Michaela Teich
Head of Unit | Snow & Avalanches
Department of Natural Hazards
Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW)
Rennweg 1, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone 0043 664 885 082 87
Email michaela.teich(a)bfw.gv.at<mailto:michaela.teich@bfw.gv.at>
Web https://www.bfw.gv.at<https://www.bfw.gv.at/>
[Ein Bild, das Text, Schrift, Grafikdesign, Grafiken enth?lt. Automatisch generierte Beschreibung]EXTENSION OF DEADLINE TO 25 MAY 2023 - XXVI IUFRO World Congress: Invitation To Nominate Candidates for IUFRO Awards
to be presented at the IUFRO World Congress 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden
Dear Colleagues,
The XXVI IUFRO World Congress to be held from 23 to 29 June 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden provides us with another opportunity to honour outstanding scientific achievements and contributions to forestry with a range of IUFRO Awards. I am pleased to invite and encourage you to nominate suitable candidates for the various categories of awards as listed below. The deadline for submission of nominations has been extended to 25th May 2023.
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (SAA)
Up to 10 awards will be given in recognition of distinguished individual scientific achievements within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.
Nominations may be made by a member of the nominee's parent organization, by Coordinators of Divisions, Research Groups, Working Parties and Task Forces, and by other officeholders and knowledgeable persons associated with the Union (but no self-nominations). Nominees must either belong to Member Organizations or be Individual Members of IUFRO.
Please FILL IN THE NOMINATIONS FORM before 25th May 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/7NnsKKxEn5
OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARD (ODRA)
One award per IUFRO Division will be given to recognize path-breaking doctoral disser-tations completed in the period 2018-2023 within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.
Nominations may be made by a member of the nominee's parent organization, by Coordinators of Divisions, Research Groups, Working Parties, Task Forces and by other officeholders and knowledgeable persons associated with the Union (but no self-nominations). Nominees must either belong to IUFRO Member Organizations or be Individual Members of IUFRO. Please FILL IN THE NOMINATIONS FORM before 25th May 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/gjXvQgc2vV
IUFRO STUDENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FOREST SCIENCE (ISA)
This award recognizes outstanding individual achievements in forest science made by Masters degree students (or equivalent) completed in the period 2018-2023, in order to encourage their further work within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.
One award per IUFRO Division may be made for work related to the themes of the IUFRO World Congress. Nominations can be made through IUFRO Members and through the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) via the IFSA Secretariat/Liaison Officer.
The Award shall consist of a certificate, the most economical cost of (air) travel/subsidized travel to attend the World Congress, and waiver of the Congress registration fee. The SAA will be presented at the opening or closing ceremony of the World Congress. For the ODRA and ISA, the awards will be presented in a special session where awardees are given the opportunity to present highlights of their award winning work. All award winners will be announced in a special issue of IUFRO News and in other media.
Please FILL IN THE NOMINATIONS FORM before 25th May 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/FQ3McussKx
In addition to these awards, the Congress 2024 will offer:
Best Poster Award (BPA)
To encourage public dissemination of high-quality research and to recognize distinguished poster presentations during the IUFRO World Congress by under-graduate students, graduate students and individuals who completed their graduate degrees up to 7 years prior to the Congress. A number of awards will be presented for applications submitted by the corresponding author during the online submission of the abstract. Applications shall be finalized two months before the Congress by submitting the final pdf of the poster presentation. Shortlisted poster presentations will be judged directly at the IUFRO World Congress. The awards will be mentioned during the closing ceremony.
IUFRO World Congress Host Scientific Award
This award honours one or more truly outstanding scientists from the Congress host country who has elevated the profile of forest science and research.
For more information and nomination forms, please check the website:
https://www.iufro.org/discover/awards/
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XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024
FORESTS AND SOCIETY TOWARDS 2050
Stockholm, Sweden; 23-29 June 2024
Congress website: https://www.iufro2024.com/
Dear colleagues,
[Ein Bild, das Diagramm enth?lt. Automatisch generierte Beschreibung]IUFRO, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, is hiring a Project Manager to start on 1 July 2023. Candidates should ideally be early- to mid-career professionals holding a Master's degree (or higher) in forest sciences or related disciplines. They should be experienced in planning and implementing projects and have an interest in and knowledge of international forest-related political processes, as well as global sustainable development topics.
The tasks of the Project Manager encompass operational planning and implementation of projects within the Science-Policy Programme of IUFRO, as well as following up and contributing to different intergovernmental processes. This full time (40 hours/week) position in an international team requires skills in personal organisation, planning, priority setting, and managing multiple tasks and the ability to effectively and positively interact with people in a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment.
Institution: IUFRO
Duty station: IUFRO Headquarters, Vienna, Austria
Working language: English (command of other UN languages and/or German is advantageous)
Closing date: 19 May 2023, 11:59 p.m. CEST
Details: https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/discover/gfep-vacancy-announcement…
Many thanks and best wishes,
Dr. Christoph Wildburger
Science-Policy Programme Coordinator
Find out more about the new IUFRO Science-Policy Programme at:
IUFRO: Science-Policy Programme / Science in IUFRO<https://www.iufro.org/science/gfep/>
Dear colleagues,
There is still time for nominations!
Remember to submit on line, following instructions bellow, but in order to
get the Division 8 endorsement, please let me or any of the Deputy
coordinators from the Division know
Looking forward for your nominations!
The deadline for submission of nomination materials for IUFRO awards is May
15, 2023. The specific awards are:
The Scientific Achievement Award: Up to ten awards. In recognition of
distinguished individual scientific achievements within the fields of
research covered by IUFRO.
Outstanding Doctoral Research Award: One per IUFRO Division. To recognize
path-breaking doctoral dissertations completed in the period 2018-2023
within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.
IUFRO Student Award for Excellence in Forest Science: One per IUFRO
Division. Recognizes outstanding individual achievements in forest science
made by Masters degree students (or equivalent) completed in the period
2018-2023, in order to encourage their further work within the fields of
research covered by IUFRO.
Best Poster Award: recognizes distinguished poster presentations during the
IUFRO World Congress by under-graduate students, graduate students, and
individuals who completed their graduate degrees up to 7 years prior to the
congress. For this award, the corresponding author of the poster indicates
consideration for the award during the abstract submission process.
Further information on the awards, who is eligible to prepare nominations
for consideration, and nomination forms can be found here:
https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/events/iwc24/iwc24-awards-call-for-
nominations-reminder.pdf
You are encouraged to consider nominating colleagues and the Honours and
Awards Committee looks forward to receiving the nomination materials.
Best,
Sandra
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Sandra LUQUE PhD, DR HDR
Director of Research
Chair IUFRO Division 8 - Forest Environment
Nominated Lead author for IPBES Nexus Report
CEOS Co-coordinator Task Force Ecosystem Extent
INRAE National Research Institute on Agriculture, Food & the Environment,
Unit TETIS Land, environment, remote sensing and spatial information
500 rue Jean-François Breton / 34093 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Mob. +33 769150689 / Skype: sandra.luque2 <https://www.inrae.fr/en>
https://www.inrae.fr/en
Associate Editor Landscape Ecology (Europe)
https://www.springer.com/journal/10980/editors
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Text prepared in part by Tod Ramsfield, Division 7 Coordinator
